New video series captures team working on NASA's Europa Clipper
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 19:32
Destined for Jupiter's icy moon Europa, the Europa Clipper spacecraft—the largest NASA has ever flown on an interplanetary mission—is being readied to launch in October 2024. Between now and then, thousands of hours of work will go into assembling and testing the spacecraft to ensure it's hardy enough to survive a six-year 1.6-billion-mile (2.6 billion kilometer) journey and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of this mysterious moon.
ESA extends AI and cloud computing to space
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 13:00
Despite the rain trickling down the windows, the atmosphere in this room is bright. Twelve teams are gathered in ESA's ESTEC technology centre to explore how we can use the latest developments in AI and advanced computing to make satellites smarter. To make them more reactive, agile and independent.
African space agencies have the potential to lead the global space race
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 12:30
African nations have the potential to become leading competitors in the space industry due to the continent’s rapidly expanding space industry, the amount of institutional knowledge already available, and its large youth population poised to become the next generation of space innovators.
Watch live: ESA's class of 2022 astronaut candidates first news conference
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 12:09
BlackSky releases rare satellite image of alleged airship in China
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Herndon VA (SPX) May 02, 2023
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) released the first and only known public satellite image, according to a third-party intelligence analyst, of an alleged aerostat at the Korla East Test Site, China. The rare image was captured Friday, November 4, 2022, at 9 a.m. local time and is one of only two images, from among more than 1,000 images collected over the duration of one year, that shows a
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) released the first and only known public satellite image, according to a third-party intelligence analyst, of an alleged aerostat at the Korla East Test Site, China. The rare image was captured Friday, November 4, 2022, at 9 a.m. local time and is one of only two images, from among more than 1,000 images collected over the duration of one year, that shows a Massive radio array to search for ET signals from other civilizations
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Mountain View CA (SPX) May 02, 2023
One of the world's most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), situated about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, is collecting data that scientists will analyze for the type of emissions that only artificial transmitters make, signals that would betray the exist
One of the world's most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), situated about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, is collecting data that scientists will analyze for the type of emissions that only artificial transmitters make, signals that would betray the exist Zhurong Rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Beijing, China (SPX) May 02, 2023
The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, according to a study led by Prof. QIN Xiaoguang from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of CAS and the Institute of Atmospher
The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, according to a study led by Prof. QIN Xiaoguang from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of CAS and the Institute of Atmospher Conservation groups sue US regulator over SpaceX launches
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Washington (AFP) May 1, 2023
US conservation groups on Monday announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program.
The move came after the world's most powerful rocket exploded on its first integrated test flight, just four minutes after launching from Boca Chica, Texas on April 20.
SpaceX video showed a hail of debris bein
US conservation groups on Monday announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program.
The move came after the world's most powerful rocket exploded on its first integrated test flight, just four minutes after launching from Boca Chica, Texas on April 20.
SpaceX video showed a hail of debris bein Falcon Heavy launches massive GEO satellite for Viasat
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Washington DC (UPI) May 1, 2023
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket with a payload of satellites from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday after having to abort the mission days earlier.
The two-stage rocket - loaded with competitor ViaSat-3 Americas broadband Internet satellite, as well as satellites by Astranis and Gravity Space - was scheduled to launch Friday evening but the mission was aborted with
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket with a payload of satellites from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday after having to abort the mission days earlier.
The two-stage rocket - loaded with competitor ViaSat-3 Americas broadband Internet satellite, as well as satellites by Astranis and Gravity Space - was scheduled to launch Friday evening but the mission was aborted with Just a Little Scoot: Sols 3814-3816
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 02, 2023
We arrived this morning to Curiosity at a new location with some bright toned, and more rounded rocks in our vicinity. Unfortunately, we could look but not touch as our wheels were positioned such that we could not safely unstow the arm for contact science. We typically have a large suite of arm activities in weekend plans but with those now removed, the science team had ample power and time to
We arrived this morning to Curiosity at a new location with some bright toned, and more rounded rocks in our vicinity. Unfortunately, we could look but not touch as our wheels were positioned such that we could not safely unstow the arm for contact science. We typically have a large suite of arm activities in weekend plans but with those now removed, the science team had ample power and time to Webb finds water vapor, but from a rocky planet or its star
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 02, 2023
The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to be found orbiting such a star. Red dwarf stars are cool, so a planet has to hug it in a tight orbit to stay warm enough to potentially host liquid water (meaning it lies in the habitable zone).
Such stars are also active, particularly when they are young, releasing ultraviolet an
The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to be found orbiting such a star. Red dwarf stars are cool, so a planet has to hug it in a tight orbit to stay warm enough to potentially host liquid water (meaning it lies in the habitable zone).
Such stars are also active, particularly when they are young, releasing ultraviolet an Nifty nanoparticles help 'peel back the curtain' into the world of super small things
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 01, 2023
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to "peel back the curtain" into the world of extremely small objects - thousands of times smaller than a human hair - with major gains for medical and other technologies.
The findings, published in Science Advances, could have major implications for medical scie
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to "peel back the curtain" into the world of extremely small objects - thousands of times smaller than a human hair - with major gains for medical and other technologies.
The findings, published in Science Advances, could have major implications for medical scie Final frontier is no longer alien
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Beijing (XNA) May 02, 2023
Sci-fi depictions of life in space are often inspired by what is happening on our own planet. Since its release in January, the prequel of Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth (2019) has made a huge splash with takings passing 4 billion yuan ($580 million), according to box-office tracker Maoyan.
Adapted from sci-fi author Liu Cixin's novelette of the same title, The Wandering Ea
Sci-fi depictions of life in space are often inspired by what is happening on our own planet. Since its release in January, the prequel of Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth (2019) has made a huge splash with takings passing 4 billion yuan ($580 million), according to box-office tracker Maoyan.
Adapted from sci-fi author Liu Cixin's novelette of the same title, The Wandering Ea On the Edge: NASA's last S-MODE mission studies the ocean's surface
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 02, 2023
The mission is gathering observations with airborne sensors, a research ship, and autonomous instruments like gliders that skim the upper layers of the Pacific Ocean.
NASA has taken to the seas and skies to study the unique environment at the ocean's surface, where marine ecosystems intersect with our planet's complex atmosphere. On April 7, scientists participating in the Sub-Mesoscale Oc
The mission is gathering observations with airborne sensors, a research ship, and autonomous instruments like gliders that skim the upper layers of the Pacific Ocean.
NASA has taken to the seas and skies to study the unique environment at the ocean's surface, where marine ecosystems intersect with our planet's complex atmosphere. On April 7, scientists participating in the Sub-Mesoscale Oc Chia Network and SpaceKnow secure spatial data and analytics for AgroTech sector
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
San Francisco CA (SPX) May 01, 2023
Chia Network and SpaceKnow have announced a collaboration to unlock actionable intelligence and data from space for the benefit of sustainability efforts, beginning with the AgroTech industry. SpaceKnow and Chia will build and maintain a geospatial database to track land enrollment in sustainability programs, secured using Chia's Virtual Private Blockchain approach to create a trusted database t
Chia Network and SpaceKnow have announced a collaboration to unlock actionable intelligence and data from space for the benefit of sustainability efforts, beginning with the AgroTech industry. SpaceKnow and Chia will build and maintain a geospatial database to track land enrollment in sustainability programs, secured using Chia's Virtual Private Blockchain approach to create a trusted database t